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eTwinning and Social Media , the learning event that Bart and I are running is in the full swing and tomorrow we're organizing a Twitterathon - a 3-hour Twitter chat for educators. We're going to discuss three  educational topics chosen by teachers from the learning event and beyond. We invite you to join us for the Etwion and vote for the topics. The poll will be open till midnight, March 6. The Twitterathon will take place on March 6, from 7-10 pm CET. (check your time zone here.)

 Over  the past years we have witnessed the transformation of education 1.0 to education 3.0. Not only witnessed! Along the way we – teachers and students – have actively participated in the process of change, we have brought and will continue to bring new ways of learning into our classrooms.  Together we have transformed the roles of teachers and students:      -  from  Education 1:0  where teachers were lecturers and know-it-alls and where students were passive onlookers and receivers of information;       - through  Education 2:0  where teachers were moderators and facilitators who showed the right direction to students who were active participants and consumers of information       - to where we are right now in  Education 3.0 : there where the line between teachers and students is blurred, where we are all learners, discoverers of information, producers of new content and crea...

I love Twitter, I always have, ever since I first started following Ashton Kutcher @aplusk, (yes, really!) in April 2009. Only a month later, my PLN began to take shape. That was also the time when the first educational Twitter chat took place. 4,5 years later, my PLN plays a very important role for my professional, but also personal development and Twitter chats are events I take part in whenever I can.  I have grown both professionally and personally over those 4,5 year, as Italian educator Alessandra Pallavicini aptly said: Yesterday, I went even further than that -  I led the first eTwinning Twitter Marathon together with Bart Verswijvel , with whom I have already done lots of educational projects that have inspired a huge number of educators worldwide. ETWION as we called it, brought together more than 150 educators from all over the world. It lasted for 5 hours non-stop, with Bart and me welcoming the audience, involving them in the conversations, making ...

#ETWION is an eTwinning Twitter Marathon that Bart and I are organizing for eTwinners and educators from all over the world on December 19. We're really pleased to see that lots of teachers have opened a Twitter account and are getting ready to take part in the twitterathon. Here are some tips for newcomers on how to make the most out of #ETWION: First and foremost, we communicate with other Twitterers (or tweeps) by sending short messages or tweets which are up to 140 characters long. Even though this may seem really short, we can add links, photos and even video clips to our tweets. Every Twitter user has a Twitter name, also known as Twitter handle , which consists of the symbol @ placed before the username. If you don't add the @ , the user might not see your tweet, so make sure you always add the twitter handle of the person who you're addressing this tweet to. For example, I sent out this tweet to no one in particular so it appeared on the timelines of all t...